Going from memory, here is what happened in the last 30 years.
Bush won in 1988
The 1990 midterms produced a 267-167 Democratic majority in the House, and 56 to 44 Democratic Senate majority.
(conservative Democrats, as always was the case, gave the Republicans control over what passed though)
Clinton won in 1992
The 1994 midterms gave Republicans a 230 - 204 House majority and a 53 to 47 Senate majority.
Clinton won in 1996
The 1998 midterms gave Republicans a 223 - 211 House majority and a 55 to 45 Senate majority.
Bush won in 2000
The 2002 mid-terms gave Republicans a 229 - 205 House majority and a 51 to 49 Senate majority.
Bush won in 2004
The 2006 midterms gave Democrats a 233 to 202 House majority and a 51 to 49 Senate majority.
Obama won in 2008
The 2010 midterms gave Republicans around 240 seats in the House while Democrats held the Senate 53 to 47.
Obama won in 2012
In 2014, Republicans won a 54 to 46 Senate majority and a House majority of about 243 to 192.
Trump won in 2016
Democrats will have between 232 and 234 seats in the House and 47 in the Senate.
(Republicans took North Dakota, Indiana, Missouri, and Florida from the Democrats while Democrats took Nevada and Arizona from the Republicans. A net change of 2 seats for the Republicans)
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Trump fared a lot better than previous Presdients
His overall Senate majority fared better than most Presidents in recent(as in the last 3 decades) memory (though Democrats actually won about 70% of the Senate races in 2018).
But the House isn't "a lot better" than previous (recent) Presidents, and might actually be seen as worse.
Clinton saw the Democrats emerge with anywhere from 204 to 211 seats in his two mid-term elections. Add independent Bernie Sanders to that total, and the low water mark was 205 Democratic congressmen elected during the November 1994 mid-terms.
Bush saw 229 Republicans elected in 2002, and 202 in 2006.
(Trump will be worse off than Clinton's 2 midterm elections, and perhaps the same as the low-water Bush midterm)
Obama only saw 192 to 195 Democrats elected in his two midterm elections, so Trump (sort of) blew that performance away.
I suppose that last 3 mid-term elections (2006, 1010, and 2014) can be seen as having incumbent Presidents who saw their respective parties, loose (on average) 5 to 6 more House races in the mid-term elections than Trump's 2018 Republican congressmen/congresswomen.
That still works out to roughly 1% (less than 1.5%) of the 435 member House body.
(Obama's 2010 Democrats matched Trump's 53-47 PRESENT post-2018 election Senate majority, but Obama's Democratic House candidates only won around 195 or so seats, while Trump will have 201-203)
Edited by LamarkNewAge, : No reason given.